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What the newsrooms chased on 7 August

Captured for this day: 6419 items from 25 outlets, 594 of the day’s stories carried by more than one. How much of the day was captured depends on when ingestion ran — see the note under the calendar.

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14 calendar days, 07 Aug – 20 Aug 2026. Days with nothing captured are greyed out and inert. The archive holds 79,623 items across 44 days; earlier ones are reachable with the previous-day link below.

Captured live: the first item from 07 August 2026 reached the crawler 1 minutes after it was published, so the crawler was running while this day’s items were still inside every feed’s window. It is sampled well. Each RSS feed returns only its latest 15–200 items, so a day’s total is a record of what the crawler saw rather than a measurement of the day: a smaller count is a collection artefact, not a finding. It does not mean less news happened.

The day’s agenda

Ranked by how many separate items outlets published on this one calendar day (UTC) — the one reach-style measure that is comparable across outlets today. Bars show the mainstream and alternative share of the outlets covering each story.

01
13 outlets1.5 items/hr
27 items
02
13 outlets1.5 items/hr
27 items
03
12 outlets1.2 items/hr
23 items
04
11 outlets1.2 items/hr
23 items
05
11 outlets1.6 items/hr
22 items
06
11 outletsno alternative coverage1.0 items/hr
19 items

How CJP defeated BJP at Jantar Mantar Protests? | Full Story of 20th July | Dhruv Rathee is the day’s clearest saturation event. 13 outlets, 27 items, 7 of them inside 2 hours — Aaj Tak, CNN-News18, India Today, India Today (web), India TV running near-continuous coverage of one story. 2 of the covering outlets are alternative.

22h ago 17h 11h 6h now India TV Times Now The Hindu (web) Republic Bharat Mojo Story Aaj Tak India Today (web) CNN-News18 India Today The Wire News18 India NDTV India Times of India (web) 7 of 27 items land in 2h →
Each dot is one published item on “How CJP defeated BJP at Jantar Mantar Protests? | Full Story of 20th July | Dhruv Rathee”, grouped by outlet. The dashed line marks the densest 2-hour window; items inside it are highlighted.

Source map

25 outlets published items captured on 07 August 2026, 7 of them alternative, 6419 items in total. Every outlet links to its own site or channel so any figure here can be walked back to where it came from.

Share is share of what was captured, not of what was published. An item count is publishing volume — a channel posting rolling updates outweighs one filing twice — and on any day before ingestion started it is also capped by how far back that outlet’s feed reached. Stories counts how many of the day’s multi-outlet stories a source touched, which is the closer measure of agenda weight.

OutletOwnerTypeItemsShareStories
News18 Indianetwork18mainstream86013.4%105
NDTV Indiandtvmainstream78612.2%105
Aaj Takindia today groupmainstream6089.5%180
The Hindu (web)the hindu groupmainstream5618.7%112
Zee Newszee mediamainstream5348.3%105
India TVindependent news servicemainstream4787.4%101
ABP Newsabp networkmainstream4406.9%107
India Today (web)india today groupmainstream3695.7%151
TV9 Bharatvarshtv9 networkmainstream2874.5%96
Republic Bharatrepublic media networkmainstream2744.3%130
India Todayindia today groupmainstream2684.2%142
WIONzee mediamainstream2584.0%92
CNN-News18network18mainstream2013.1%121
Times Nowtimes groupmainstream1432.2%104
Republic Worldrepublic media networkmainstream1011.6%57
Times of India (web)times groupmainstream631.0%42
Scroll.in (web)scroll mediaalternative600.9%23
NDTV (web)ndtvmainstream390.6%29
Indian Express (web)indian express groupmainstream270.4%0
ThePrintprintline mediaalternative190.3%6
Mojo Storymojo storyalternative180.3%11
The Quint (web)quintillion mediaalternative110.2%4
The Quintquintillion mediaalternative50.1%4
The Wirefoundation for independent journalismalternative50.1%2
Newslaundrynewslaundryalternative40.1%3

Blind spots

Of the 594 stories with coverage from more than one outlet on 07 August 2026:

551 Covered only by mainstream

Led by Jharkhand JPSC Protest: झारखंड विधानसभा के बाहर NDA का प्रदर्शन I Jairam Mahto I Hemant Soren (49 items), Atiq Ahmad Son Aban Death: Atiq Ahmed के बेटे Aban Ahmed की हुई मौत-TV9 (43 items), Atiq Ahmad Son Aban Death: Atiq Ahmed के बेटे Aban Ahmed की हुई मौत-TV9 (37 items)

2 Covered only by alternative

Led by Protesting does not make youth ‘anti-national’, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says at student event (4 items), Filmmaker Shruti Ganguly’s Message To Anti-Trump, Pro-Modi Diaspora Indians | VIGILANT | The Quint (2 items)

Read this as a description of a 25-outlet sample on one day, not a verdict on Indian media. The mainstream set is larger and posts far more often, so it will dominate any raw count. The number worth watching over weeks is the second one — and on days captured before ingestion started, both numbers are held down by how little of that day was collected at all.

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6419 items on this day · 25 outlets · 594 multi-outlet stories · 1623 candidates · 0 verified · 0 published
Archive: 79623 items across 44 days, 2864 stories.
Sources are public RSS feeds from outlet-operated YouTube channels and news sites. Headlines are quoted verbatim for commentary and criticism, each linked to its original. Hindi glosses are unverified working translations. Coverage counts describe a 25-outlet sample on a single day and are not a ranking of Indian media. Per-day totals reflect how much of each day the crawler captured, not how much news there was. Times are UTC. No legal review has been done.